Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2001, 12:32 AM CST for Choctaw County, Clarke County, Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2001, 12:32 AM CST (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2001, 1:30 AM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Marengo County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 1:15 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 75 E | Sweet Water, AL | Strong thunderstorm winds completely removed the roof of a mobile home. Trees that were blown down by the storm produced damage to two other nearby homes. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 510 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 250632 SVRMOB ALC023-025-091-250730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1232 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SOUTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA MARENGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 130 AM CST * AT 1232 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOMACK HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LOU BY 1235 AM CST ARARAT...WOODS BLUFF BY 1240 AM CST MORVIN BY 1250 AM CST HOLTAMVILLE...PUTNAM BY 1255 AM CST STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3184 8833 3174 8815 3210 8782 3223 8803
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 1:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 31 min |
| Feb 25, 1:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Marengo | 23 min |
| Feb 25, 1:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Marengo | 32 min |
| Feb 25, 4:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 40 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.